Using Black Fondant

Never water! A little alcohol usually does the job. Also she could use trex to roll out on instead of cornflour. I’ve used that with smaller pieces for modelling but never on a larger scale but it might be worth experimenting. Sugarpaste direct do a good black btw.

I’ve rolled out black fondant many times, I never use icing sugar or corn starch/flour. I use cocoa. Works a charm, and doesn’t leave nasty “marks”. Brushes right off. Mel suggests trex/shortening, but I found it made the fondant too stretchy when rolling out. But it can be applied all over the fondant once on the cake. Will be shiny, but soaks in, and doesn’t leave greasy marks.
I don’t know what flavour of cake/cakes your friend is making, but I have a recipe here on CD for a great homemade chocolate mmf. It’s very easy to colour black. Because the mmf is already a dark brown, doesn’t take much black food colouring to achieve it.
BEST EVER HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE MMF … – CakesDecor
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Hi Julie, I have only had to cover a cake with black fondant twice and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I did roll out on icing sugar but I used it sparingly. Then once the fondant had set on the cake, to bring it back to its sparkling black self, I sparingly rubbed Trex all over it, just enough to give it a little sheen and voila, the Trex soaks right in over night. Come join us on Cake decor Rebecca it is such fun :) xx

Oh I love you lot! Thank you so much. I have given Rebecca a link to this page and I’m sure she will be so pleased that you have been so helpful xXx

Looking forward to Rebecca joining….

Me too – I really hope she does! :-) x

The only time I had to do a black cake (a Chanel handbag) I covered it in white and then sprayed it black – worked really well. Look forward to a new member too!

The Mat (for me) is good for covering all cakes large or small – you don’t need icing sugar or cornflour. Not everyone gets on with The Mat, but I totally love it! I only use it as a base to roll on, I don’t put the top sheet on as it makes it too hard (for weak little me!) to roll out. You can get different sizes but I don’t think they are in quite the same supply as they used to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdgM6Roua40 xx

Julia, I like June’s suggestion to use cocoa, I am going to try it out myself next time (thanks June) but the first time I used black fondant and of course used cornstarch and left marks, and I had many suggections, from water to alcohol, but what worked well at that time is dabbing it with shortening (trex) and that removed the marks beautifully but left a shiny finish and you have to leave it to dry out too!! This is the cake:

Dina that turned our beautifully!